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CHARLES BRWN, OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA.

Lette/rs Patent No. 99,517, dated February 1, 1870.

IMPRovED BooTfJAcx.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.:

for operation.

A represents a continuous leather strap, about an inch in width, and the thickness of heavy upper' or light strap-leatlier. In length, it is usually eighteen to twenty-four inches, more or less.

a is a slit cut in the length lof the strap, suciently longto slipl the {bot-through, as represented in'g. 2,

which 'shows half, C, ot the strap where it is divided over the instep, and the other half, D, behind the heel,

whilst the rest passes down around and under the feet.

A pull on the part. B, by the other foot, readily res moves the boot.

The strap can be easily carried in the pocket or in a valise ortrunk. i Y

Having described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, isf

As anew article of manufacture, a portable booljack, made of a leather strap or other equivalent material, and provided with a slit, a, cut lengthwise of the strap, as herein shown and described.

` CHARLES BROVN.

Witnesses: l l

THos. GARLAND, ALLEN BACON. 

